Improvement in combined suspenders and safety-pockets



UNITED STATES union.

PATENT MARX HARRIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,584, dated Novem ber 7, 1871.

To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARX HARRIS, ofthe city, county, and State of N ew York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Gombincd Suspender and Safety-Pocket; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction of the saine, sufficient to enable any one skilled in the art to make and construct the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a complete View of one of the suspenders. Fig. 2 is aside view showing the safe- ,ty-pocket as open.

This invention relates to an improvement in th at class of Suspenders which is provided with pockets; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts too fully hereinafter described to need preliminary statement.

In the drawing, A may represent a pair of suspenders provided with one or more safetypockets, B, and a suitable buckle, F, to brace the Suspenders from the rear. The suspender A in the front passes through a longitudinal slot in the loop D, and passing upward a short distance, is attached to a button or other suitable fastening device secured upon the inside of the suspender. Between the two portions of the suspender thus produced is located a safetypocket, B, made of some soft fabric, preferably of chamois-skin. This pocket is designed to receive articles of jewelry or other valuables which at any time it may be desired to conceal, either in crowds or other localities. When the articles are placed within the safety-pocket the front end of the suspender is buttoned or otherwise secured, thus effectually preventing them from working upward and falling out of the mouth of the pocket. The mouth of the pocket is provided with an elastic ring of rubber or its equivaient, which tends to draw and keep the said mouth tightly closed at all times. The safetypocket is so formed that it may bulge or swell out at the sides, which is a feature specially adapted when large quantities of jewels, money, or other valuables are desired to be secreted. W'atches may be placed within the safety-pocket and the hook or pin pass through the buttonhole at the end ofthe suspender, thus doubly securing it against loss. The safety-pocket, as I have arranged it, will also be found convenient when the vest is laid aside, as is the ease generally with workmen. Within the portion a of the loop D are secured the straps E E, which engage with the buttons upon the garments desired to support. The'back or rear portion of the suspenders are inserted within a slot of the loop D', and passing upward are secured to the center piece e of the sliding buckle F upon the suspender A. By bracing the suspenders from behind, instead ofthe front, one may be lengthened and the other shortened, to suit the irregular height of a persons shoulders when the same are of unequal position, thus retaining at all times the buckles and ends in the front of the Suspenders at an even height, and hence not interfering with the concealed pocket, but permitting it always to be at the same distance above the loop D.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The suspender A, combined with the safetypocketl-,the latter being constructed, arranged, and secured by the former as shown and described.

To the above I have signed my name this 26th W'itnesses .Imi/nrs L. Nonnrs,

JOHN A. Wrnnnnsnnln. (38) 

